Crystal Palace International Electric Exhibition 1881-82

82 J. R. Breckon, Esq.). Edison’s Electric Printing Apparatus, by which any number of copies of an original manuscript, to an almost unlimited extent, can be produced at the rate of 300 an hour at a nominal cost. Price and freight lists, circulars, postcards, music, drawings, and any other description of work produced neatly and expeditiously. (See Advt. p. 117.) Southern Gallery. 312 .—J. Faulkner, 13, Great Ducie Street, Strangeways, Manchester. Altandæ Electric Brass and Iron. Separators and Pottery Glaze Extractors. Eastern Gallery. 313 .—W. M. Foxceoit, 54, Compton Street, Clerkenwell. Comprises Block Instrument Cases, single needle, North. Eastern Railway pattern; Speaking Instrument Cases, single needle, Mid- land Railway pattern; Speaking* Instrument Cases, G-.P.O. pattern for commutator instrument; also Gower Bell Telephone Cases, as adopted by Her Majesty’s Government, or G-.P.O.; also special Telephone and Battery Case combined—Wollaston?s patent. Being portable, they can be used for men of war, torpedo and field purposes. Each division., boat, &c., being supplied with one by the paying out of a wire, communication is easily maintained. Transmitter and receiver case. Specialities in telephone cases. (See Advt. p. 143.) Concert-Room Gallery. 314 .'—Fynn & Carle, 22, Pigott Street, Limehouse, E. Elec- trical and Mechanical Self-acting Registering Money Till. The registering apparatus is placed in any convenient position inside the till, and arrange the dials and indices in such a manner that the dials can easily be seen and the indices rest at “zero” on the dials at any time, without interfering with, or affecting the in- ternal machinery. The dials are concealed by a cover, secured by a lock the key of which is retained by any authorised person. Electrical communication may be fitted to the apparatus, so that the register can be fixed near or distant by renting overhead ■wires. Concert-Room Gallery. 316 .—Alfred B. Harding, 1, Albion Villas, Catford. Metals Fused into Glass by Lightning. Strips of various metals having been laid on these sheets of glass, an actual flash of lightning—■ collected by means of Mr. Crosse’s “ exploding wires/-’ stretched over his grounds, and accumulated in his great Leyden battery of 50 jars—was passed successively through each strip. The dis- charge partially volatilized the metal, leaving the metallic residue fused into the glass, as may be seen. A stereograph, of the Leyden battery by-which the effect was obtained, accompanies the frames. Eastern Gallery. 317 .—T. R. Harding & Son, Tower Works, Leeds. Revolution Counters and Speed Indicators, for ascertaining and recording the speed of engines and dynamo-electric machines. Pocket ■Counters—counters suitable for actuating at a distance by ■electricity. Eastern Gallery. 318 .—F. Hawkins, Valentine Villa, Disraeli Road, Upton, near Stratford, E. The Triplex Check Till, of cabinet form, combining